Afternoon lovely ladies,
I thought I would cheer myself up this miserable friday afternoon and put together a big flash as it's 5 weeks tomorrow to the big day!!
Background:
We met on the internet 5 years ago, and had our first date on 16th December. I got rather sarcastic with him during the date (I told him off for being rude!!) and we both thought we wouldn't see each other again! A few days later, he invited me over... and the rest is history! I moved in 18 months later, and we are currently buying our first house.
Proposal:
For my 30th birthday (early may 2015), we were going to the USA for 2 weeks. He sat me down and told me that he would not be proposing, he doesn't want me to be upset if he doesn't and he wanted to make it clear it would not be happening. Liar liar pants on fire!!!! He had been planning it for 4 months!! Sadly my aunt died a couple of weeks before our holiday, but he had told her in January what he was planning! We had upgraded to Upper Class on the way to San Francisco, and when we went to the bar on the flight for a drink, he went off to the toilet. I was chatting away to the crew and all of a sudden they went quiet and looked behind me... I turned to see him down on one knee holding a ring! My first reaction was 'what the **** are you doing'!! Eventually I said yes.. I couldn't believe it, I thought he was joking! It was lovely as we were meeting my dad and sister for dinner that evening so they were the first to see us.
Fast forward 6 months and here we are, 5 weeks away from our wedding!
We are having a piper throughout the day although I'm planing to have a Mumford & Sons instrumental to walk down the aisle to! (Mumford & Sons is the reason he contacted me on the internet site!) We are also having 'you got a friend in me' from toy story and 'best friend' by queen during our signing. Our ceremony is humanist and we are having both a handfasting and a sharing of the quaich between the families. Our first dance is The One by Kodaline and I've arranged for OH to get up with the band to sing Dignity as it's his karaoke favourite. We are also having singing waiters during the meal! Oh and our videographer will also be filming a marryoke video throughout the day - possibly to I Believe in a Thing Called Love by the Darkness!
We are also having a sweepstake for the length of the best mans speech, and a coin toss, to raise money for the two charities mentioned below. And the guests will be offered a whisky produced by OH with his name on it for the toast.
I am providing flip flops, a basket of fleece tartan blankets and a bathroom basket with little signs personalised with our name and date.
Venue: Balbirnie House, Fife (I'm hoping for snow!)
Ceremony Room (our sashes are pewter grey with a navy band):
Ballroom:
But it will look more like this:
Table Decorations - candelabras but they will have mirrored plates, navy table runners, table crystals and will be wrapped in ivy with pearl garlands hanging. the top table will have miniature love lights, our bouquets in vases and some lanterns with candles in them.
We are also having a candy cart (I won it):
and making our own photobooth with something similar to these balloons as a backdrop, the props will be in a genuine vintage suitcase:
Our table plan is something like this... the table names are places we have been on holiday, and I've printed photos of us in each place to have on the table with a little note on the back to say when we were there and a little bit about the holiday:
Our invites and place names:
Our favours will be charity pins - BHF for women (for my aunt) and Sepsis Trust for men (for FIL). Children are having a personalised activity pack.
We have two guestbooks...:
Our cake is this:
With these sat on a tier and artificial sunflowers arranged on it:
My bridesmaids are in a gorgeous coast dress:
My flowers are similar to these but with red gerberas and some heather:
Not sure which of these roses to have... miss piggy (lighter) or cherry brandy (brighter):
My outfit... I don't have a photo of my jewellery as it's been handmade but the earrings are pearl drops and the bracelet is pearls with navy blue beads dotted through it.
(Love these nails so having something similar)
Mine is zip/buttons all the way, no corset back:
these for the day (OHs tartan):
And these for the ceilidh in the evening:
and my hair something like:
Wow.. I think that's pretty much everything! I am so excited now I have put it all together and thought about everything!
